Quote Originally Posted by Odin
investing in your student days Kurki? You would have had to use a good old fashioned broker if I am not mistaken. You could also walk into fed banks back then and buy treasury notes directly.

Besides what do you need material wealth for with your uncompramising wit?
Yup, that's me: wit-rich, cash-poor.

Six hundred 2007 dollars translates to about 400 1970 bucks, or two week's pay back then. In those days, I didn't know a treasury note from a "please excuse Johnny from school" sick-note. Such are the advances in education.

Today, my 401(k)-like plan lets me move money around among 6 different fund sources, on my own - you're right; in 1970 I'd have had to use a broker. My REAL retirement plan, sadly, involves matching 6 numbers with the State of California twice a week. One of these days...